Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-10
Local News.

JOIlH 1tODtTJ5 anu Wiie leit idot "Cch
for Puxwataney county, Pennsylvania
Consult your newspaper to find out
the best inducements offered by mer-
chants.
The graduating exercises of the High
school will be held at the City Hall, on
Friday evening.
II. II. Chandler is over from Galena.
Read his announcement in another
column.
Mrs. Mcfarland, of Lincoln, Nebras
ka, is visiting at the residence of Hon.
Alex. Wilson.
The people of Barneveld expect to
have Hon. Robert NJ. LaFollette crate
for them on July 4th.
John Venning, of the town of Ridge
way WAS In town on Wednesday and
made The Democrat a call.
Mrs Lillian Edgerton, Of Kansas
City, Mo, is visiting in this city at the
residence of her uncle, T. Scott. Ansley.
Joseph GRADER has commenced to
snip dressed meat to Chicago. lie
made his first shipment on Thursday
morning.
VIM. Mauger is in line with the gen
eral spirit of the times and comes out
with fine new advertisement in The
Democrat this week.
The Shullsburg Local displayed com
mendable enterprise last week in pub
fishing an extended and interesting re-
port of the reunion.
Calvert Spensley has been at Detroit,
Washington and other cities during
the week, on business connected with
the Wisconsin commission of fisheries.
Matilda Fletcher will lecture on The
Lew Of Happiness, at the opera house,
on Monday, June Is. Tickets for sale
mt the Post Onice book store.
The fourteenth annual exhibition of
the Boscobel agricultural and driving
park association will be held at Bosco-
bel on Sept y, %. %, 60, 1887.
The Mining Reporter, the newsy,
bright and able journal started in Mil
waukee, about four months ago, by
Walter w. Pollock, is meeting with
good success.
The NJ. +. Sunday School, of Yellow
stone, will hold its annual picnic on
Thursday, June Is. 4 general good
time is expected, and all are cordially
invited to attend.
Those who attended the show given
by Howe, Wall Il Clark's "retined"
MINISTRIES were badly disappointed.
Refinement is in nowise a characteristic
of the company.
DIR. and Mrs. Tallman and daughter,
accompanied by Mrs. NJ. NJ. Cothren,
left on Monday for Chicago, the DIR.
to return in few days, Mrs. Tallman
and her mother remaining for visit.
c. Gilman recently sold to n.
GRADER, thirty three steers, averaging
1870 pounds, and three cows averaging
1923 pounds. They were fine lot of
cattle, and sold in Chicago at a high
price.
The Good Templars will hold Il
a strawberry and ice cream festival ut
their hall on Tuesday evening next.
Dresen's orchestra will furnish music.
Admittance free and everybody in
vited.
Miss Fanny Ansley left on Friday
morning last on trip to New York,
where she intends to spend the sum-
mer, at the home of her uncle, Major
George W. Bundy, editor of The Mail
and Express.
The twenty-tifth annual session of
the Wisconsin Teachers association
will be held in Milwaukee ut the High
School Assembly rooms, corner of Cass
and Knapp street, commencing July b
and continuing through two days.
The annual picnic of the Plum
grove Sunday School will be held on
Thursday, June l6, and extensive pre-
variations are being made for the event.
II has been decided to hold the annual
picnic of this Sunday School on the
second Thursday in June each year
hereafter.
The annual picnic of st. Mary's
(Germanl Catholic School of this cit,
which was held on Tuesday, was yer,
nleasant and successful. The weather
was fine and the attendance quite large
The Mineral Point Band rendere,
delightful music which was highl,
appreciated by those in attendance
The receipts aggregated nearly Si5o.oo
The members of Geo. II. Legat
Post desire to return their thanks T.
all of our citizens, who willingly aide'
to make our memorial day success
Their thanks are especially due 4
those ladies who gave so much tim
and labor to the preparation of wreaths
etc; to the finance committee for thei
labor which produced abundant fund
to defray the expenses; to those VIII
SO kindly furnished the flowers ant
bouquets to our little wreath bearers
The increasing interest in the memo
rial services shows the old soldier tina
the memory of those who died for gu
country win never be allowed to fad'